Piggy Bank Planning. Tips to Teach Your Children How to Manage Money.
A solid grasp of financial concepts can protect your child from financial hardships later in life. Read our latest article for a few “money-smart” tips.
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Happy to Lend a Helping Hand to Hand in Paw
For 25 years, Hand in Paw has been helping the Birmingham community with animal-assisted therapy programs to hospitals, schools, nursing homes, and rehabilitation facilities. We’re happy to call them one of the nonprofit organizations we help with auditing.
Nonprofit Auditing: To Us, It’s a Full-Time Job
While it’s no secret that many accounting firms are stretched to the limit during tax season, what is less known is that many of those same firms fall back on nonprofit accounting and auditing during their slow time. That’s a fact that always bothered Borland Benefield Shareholder Jeffrey Chandler. In fact, it bothered him so…
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The Basics of the Advance Child Tax Credit
The world has been through a lot over this past year and a half, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. The government moved to help the economy with PPP loans for businesses and the American Rescue Plan COVID relief bill. Even with that support and stimulus payments, families have been hit hard. According to Statista, 70%…
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Borland Benefield and the BBB: It Starts With Trust.
Most people know the BBB as a complaint box for bad business experiences, but they offer a wide range of services for the community. From consumer best practices guidelines to warnings against scams and identity theft, the BBB offers a full suite of resources designed to protect the consumer when making any kind of purchase.
Fraudulent Unemployment Claims are the Latest Scam. Here’s What To Do if it Happens to You.
The more we have moved our lives online, the more identity theft has become a problem. In 2019, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reported that there were 3.3 million instances of reported identity theft and fraud in the US. You may think that number is shocking, but 2020 saw an unbelievable 45% increase in identity…
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